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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
"You can't have your cake and eat it too." Then why in the **** have a cake! The whole point of a cake is to EAT it.
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People make fun of this expression all the time, but for some reason, I guess I get it. It's true--why have a cake if you can't eat it? But once you eat it, it's gone forever. So I guess it's like saying you can't have two things at once if they're contradictory (having one necessitates not having the other). I dunno. I just never had a problem with it.
It also reminds me of when people think a cake looks so good that they don't want to eat it "oh, it's so pretty, I don't want to cut into it." But if you don't, you can't eat it,
. It's one or the other, but you can't have both.